The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
Tara Nivian-Bealцитирапреди 5 години
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die
Tara Nivian-Bealцитирапреди 5 години
Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by Legrasse's men as they ploughed on through the black morass toward the red glare and muffled tom-toms
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
em 💌цитирапреди 9 месеца
infinitely more diabolic than even the blackest of the African voodoo circles
this is so incredibly unnecessary
em 💌цитирапреди 9 месеца
after having been jostled by a nautical-looking negro who had come from one of the queer dark courts
im pretty sure this is the guy Jarvis and Jordan said was like criminally racist even for his time and he was insane or something idk
em 💌цитирапреди 9 месеца
some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
Triztan Drake Tangposцитираминалата година
group folly or mania in the spring of 1925
Triztan Drake Tangposцитираминалата година
1925 - Dream and Dream Work of H.A. Wilcox, 7 Thomas St., Providence, R. I.", and the second, "Narrative of Inspector John R. Legrasse, 121 Bienville St., New Orleans, La., at 1908 A. A. S. Mtg. - Notes on Same, & Prof. Webb's Acct
Triztan Drake Tangposцитираминалата година
Professor Webb had been engaged, forty-eight years before, in a tour of Greenland and Iceland in search of some Runic inscriptions which he failed to unearth; and whilst high up on the West Greenland coast had encountered a singular tribe or cult of degenerate Esquimaux whose religion, a curious form of devil-worship, chilled him